To confront climate change impacts, work is set start this year on the Upper Barataria basin project—which could be the largest U.S. coastal restoration of its kind.

Federal, state and local officials broke ground July 26 on a levee project along the western shores of Lake Pontchartrain. It's designed to provide hurricane and storm protection to a three-parish area where 60,000 people have little to no defenses in place.

Nearly five years into the execution of Louisiana’s long-range plan to halt and reverse the loss of coastal land, state officials are drafting the first five-year update.